I want to uninstall ffmpeg and then reinstall it (manually compile) enabling libfaad, b/c I am trying to transcode mp4 files. How can I do this, since ffmpeg is not in puppy's package manager?

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I am downloading videos from youtube as mp4 files. you can do this by putting the word pwn in front of your youtube url (e.g. www.pwnyoutube.com/video_address_here)

Now, usually these are videos of lectures that I want to listen to in my mp3 player. So, I transode them using ffmpeg. This worked fine at my parent's house using ubuntu! The process is very easy with ffmpeg, just name the input and output files and disable video output with the -vn flag (e.g. ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -vn out.mp3)

Now, when I try to do this on puppy it does not work. And I receive the following error message:

So, I am guessing I need to reinstall with libfaad enabled. It's strange that I would need to do this b/c if I play the mp4 using gxine it plays fine and says that it is using ffmpeg with libfaad. So, maybe there is something i am overlooking here??

There should be no problems overwriting ffmpeg library. This should be true if you're using a savefile. A full uninstall is desirable if you have a full hdd install though but not necessary.

I can confirm that compiling and installing from source works ok without uninstalling the previous version. The other option is to install the updated ffmpeg 0.5 pet from here.

The previous ffmpeg is kinda outdated and some newer/recent functions are not available. I have made a quick test with an avc/aac media file and ffmpeg 0.5 is able to transcode the audio portion (even though it did give a warning msg).

I installed these packages (only 1 & 2 because 3 is not must).
Before the installation i could use ffmpeg apart from mp4 to mp3 conversation.
After the installation when i launch ffmpeg a got this message:

There are many WEB20 YouTube2MP3 download sites:
a few off hand are:
listentoyoutube.com
vixy.net
convert.playtube.com
Simply paste in the address of the video, and before you know it, the mp3 is ready.

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